CommunityNews

CommunityNews

The journey to Nintendo Switch

Friday Facts #370 - The journey to Nintendo Switch | Factorio.
We have a long history of trying to bring Factorio to other platforms, including consoles and mobile phones (not including April Fools). We even worked with some external companies, but the projects never even got to the point where they would run technically, let alone the complicated part of making the game playable using controllers or touch screen. After all the attempts, we even had a Friday Facts prepared that was going to say something along the lines of “we don’t plan to bring Factorio to other platforms”.

The journey to Nintendo Switch Twinsen

I am a big fan of the Nintendo Switch system, especially the detachable Joy-Con controllers, which you can hold one in each hand. Porting Factorio to Nintendo Switch was something I had in mind…

Read in full here:

This thread was posted by one of our members via one of our news source trackers.

Where Next?

Popular Game Dev topics Top

CommunityNews
Every now and then someone tells me that their child loves video games and wants to get into the game industry, then asks me how…
New
CommunityNews
A mix of expected sequels and out-of-nowhere indie gems made 2025 a joy.
New
CommunityNews
Do you remember what video game developer websites and gaming websites looked like in the early 00s?
New
New
CommunityNews
Rosen, who led Sega from the 1960s into the 90s and who died on Christmas Day, was a hugely important figure in the history of arcade and...
New
CommunityNews
Well, its been a hot minute since I’ve updated the blog. Life decided that it had other plans for me over the past 18 months or so. The g...
New
New
CommunityNews
PortalVR Motion turns VR into Wii-style gaming — natural motion controls for thousands of SteamVR titles, using your Joy-Cons and an iPho...
New
First poster: alvinkatojr
The Stop Killing Games campaign has been dealt a major setback after the EU declined to force publishers to keep discontinued games playa...
New
CommunityNews
Rockstar has said physical copies of the game will contain a code for a digital download for the game.
New

Other popular topics Top

DevotionGeo
I know that these benchmarks might not be the exact picture of real-world scenario, but still I expect a Rust web framework performing a ...
New
PragmaticBookshelf
From finance to artificial intelligence, genetic algorithms are a powerful tool with a wide array of applications. But you don't need an ...
New
New
PragmaticBookshelf
Tailwind CSS is an exciting new CSS framework that allows you to design your site by composing simple utility classes to create complex e...
New
AstonJ
In case anyone else is wondering why Ruby 3 doesn’t show when you do asdf list-all ruby :man_facepalming: do this first: asdf plugin-upd...
New
AstonJ
Continuing the discussion from Thinking about learning Crystal, let’s discuss - I was wondering which languages don’t GC - maybe we can c...
New
Maartz
Hi folks, I don’t know if I saw this here but, here’s a new programming language, called Roc Reminds me a bit of Elm and thus Haskell. ...
New
foxtrottwist
A few weeks ago I started using Warp a terminal written in rust. Though in it’s current state of development there are a few caveats (tab...
New
PragmaticBookshelf
Fight complexity and reclaim the original spirit of agility by learning to simplify how you develop software. The result: a more humane a...
New
PragmaticBookshelf
Escape callback hell and ship fast, clean code that reads as smoothly as it runs. Squash bugs and stamp out memory leaks with an intuitiv...
New